Gorgeous gigantic town home in Gaithersburg for 1.5 M. Puzzled.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t care what you people say - that’s freaking gorgeous.

yeah but it's in gaithersburg

Another racist. You voted for Trump, right? They look gorgeous from the outside too! Look at new home prices in Urbana, but that is probably ok since Urbana is more white?
https://www.zillow.com/homes/new_homes/16111793_plid/globalrelevanceex_sort/39.387121,-77.22951,39.323541,-77.339373_rect/12_zm/0_mmm/[url]

For crying out loud, there are reasons beyond racism that people might not want to live in Gaithersburg. It is far from DC and jobs in DC and Tysons/NoVa for that matter. It is similarly far from most of the attractions that make DC unique and exciting. There aren't many cultural attractions, highly regarded restaurants, or other things that make you say 'wow, I really want to be in Gaithersburg.'

Sorry, if we aren't all as excited about Crown and Rio as you are.

But you know what we do have in Gaithersburg? Close proximity to a large number of beautiful places to run, hike, bike, and kayak. For people like my DH and I, who love the outdoors, the local, state, and county parks nearby are part of the reason we live here -- and, gasp, we live east of 270! And contrary to what one would read on these forums, I can walk safely in my neighborhood during the day and at night!

If we want to go to a cultural attraction, we can easily drive or metro to DC, but on a daily basis we can take advantage of the state park that is within walking distance of our home. I seriously doubt that any of you spouting off about how wonderful DC is go to visit those DC attractions on a daily or even weekly basis.

I agree, DC is for people who want to visit and look at thing.

Upper Moco is for people that want to do things and form lasting relationships.

DC (Bethesda/Potomac/CC) = living your best life with your material things
MoCO (not Bethesda or Potomac or CC) = living your best life creating life long friend.

DC nice to visit, don't want to live ther.

1o years is not your life but it is life-long for the bunny.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t care what you people say - that’s freaking gorgeous.

yeah but it's in gaithersburg

Another racist. You voted for Trump, right? They look gorgeous from the outside too! Look at new home prices in Urbana, but that is probably ok since Urbana is more white?
https://www.zillow.com/homes/new_homes/16111793_plid/globalrelevanceex_sort/39.387121,-77.22951,39.323541,-77.339373_rect/12_zm/0_mmm/[url]

For crying out loud, there are reasons beyond racism that people might not want to live in Gaithersburg. It is far from DC and jobs in DC and Tysons/NoVa for that matter. It is similarly far from most of the attractions that make DC unique and exciting. There aren't many cultural attractions, highly regarded restaurants, or other things that make you say 'wow, I really want to be in Gaithersburg.'

Sorry, if we aren't all as excited about Crown and Rio as you are.

I assume most of these 'why would anyone not want to live in DC' posters like you are transplants to the area so you are all pressed to be in D.C. I work in DC, live in MD, and would love a job in MD.

You are helping prove my point. You said you would love a job in MD. The problem is that most jobs aren't in MD. You have decided you are willing to accept the longer commute. Many people aren't and being unwilling to have the longer commute doesn't make you racist.

And I never said I would only live in DC. In fact, I now live in MD, just much closer in than Gaithersburg.

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Maybe a person looked at a crappy shack in Bethesda for that money and at the big nice house/town-home in the Crown area and said, I'd rather have crappy commute and come home to a nice place and not be depressed all the time? Or maybe they are doctors with a practice nearby or tech people and just liked it?

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t care what you people say - that’s freaking gorgeous.

yeah but it's in gaithersburg

Another racist. You voted for Trump, right? They look gorgeous from the outside too! Look at new home prices in Urbana, but that is probably ok since Urbana is more white?
https://www.zillow.com/homes/new_homes/16111793_plid/globalrelevanceex_sort/39.387121,-77.22951,39.323541,-77.339373_rect/12_zm/0_mmm/[url]

For crying out loud, there are reasons beyond racism that people might not want to live in Gaithersburg. It is far from DC and jobs in DC and Tysons/NoVa for that matter. It is similarly far from most of the attractions that make DC unique and exciting. There aren't many cultural attractions, highly regarded restaurants, or other things that make you say 'wow, I really want to be in Gaithersburg.'

Sorry, if we aren't all as excited about Crown and Rio as you are.

But you know what we do have in Gaithersburg? Close proximity to a large number of beautiful places to run, hike, bike, and kayak. For people like my DH and I, who love the outdoors, the local, state, and county parks nearby are part of the reason we live here -- and, gasp, we live east of 270! And contrary to what one would read on these forums, I can walk safely in my neighborhood during the day and at night!

If we want to go to a cultural attraction, we can easily drive or metro to DC, but on a daily basis we can take advantage of the state park that is within walking distance of our home. I seriously doubt that any of you spouting off about how wonderful DC is go to visit those DC attractions on a daily or even weekly basis.

You can get those outdoor activities closer in as well. I've lived in both DC and Bethesda and have had easy access to Rock Creek park and the Capital Crescent Trail for running or biking. There are also a number of places where you can drop in a kayak.

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Anonymous wrote:I would hate to live near this - Germantown sucks!

I love that pool, got me through the toddler years!

Literally that pool and the Adventure playground got me through the toddler years - back to back active toddlers .
We drove in from Bethesda multiple times a week.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t care what you people say - that’s freaking gorgeous.

yeah but it's in gaithersburg

Another racist. You voted for Trump, right? They look gorgeous from the outside too! Look at new home prices in Urbana, but that is probably ok since Urbana is more white?
https://www.zillow.com/homes/new_homes/16111793_plid/globalrelevanceex_sort/39.387121,-77.22951,39.323541,-77.339373_rect/12_zm/0_mmm/[url]

For crying out loud, there are reasons beyond racism that people might not want to live in Gaithersburg. It is far from DC and jobs in DC and Tysons/NoVa for that matter. It is similarly far from most of the attractions that make DC unique and exciting. There aren't many cultural attractions, highly regarded restaurants, or other things that make you say 'wow, I really want to be in Gaithersburg.'

Sorry, if we aren't all as excited about Crown and Rio as you are.

But you know what we do have in Gaithersburg? Close proximity to a large number of beautiful places to run, hike, bike, and kayak. For people like my DH and I, who love the outdoors, the local, state, and county parks nearby are part of the reason we live here -- and, gasp, we live east of 270! And contrary to what one would read on these forums, I can walk safely in my neighborhood during the day and at night!

If we want to go to a cultural attraction, we can easily drive or metro to DC, but on a daily basis we can take advantage of the state park that is within walking distance of our home. I seriously doubt that any of you spouting off about how wonderful DC is go to visit those DC attractions on a daily or even weekly basis.

You can get those outdoor activities closer in as well. I've lived in both DC and Bethesda and have had easy access to Rock Creek park and the Capital Crescent Trail for running or biking. There are also a number of places where you can drop in a kayak.

Montgomery Aquatic Center in Bethesda doesn’t have a tot pool with slides and the one big slide they do have is never open because they never bother to hire enough lifeguards. Bethesda facilities are consistently inferior.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe a person looked at a crappy shack in Bethesda for that money and at the big nice house/town-home in the Crown area and said, I'd rather have crappy commute and come home to a nice place and not be depressed all the time? Or maybe they are doctors with a practice nearby or tech people and just liked it?

And all those would be perfectly reasonable choices for SOME people to make. Some people could reasonably make other choices that have nothing to do with racism - it is the contention that the only reason people don't want to live in Gaithersburg is racism that I have objected to.

This is also neither here nor there, but if you really have $1.5M to spend, you can get far more than a crappy shack in Bethesda.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t care what you people say - that’s freaking gorgeous.

yeah but it's in gaithersburg

Another racist. You voted for Trump, right? They look gorgeous from the outside too! Look at new home prices in Urbana, but that is probably ok since Urbana is more white?
https://www.zillow.com/homes/new_homes/16111793_plid/globalrelevanceex_sort/39.387121,-77.22951,39.323541,-77.339373_rect/12_zm/0_mmm/[url]

For crying out loud, there are reasons beyond racism that people might not want to live in Gaithersburg. It is far from DC and jobs in DC and Tysons/NoVa for that matter. It is similarly far from most of the attractions that make DC unique and exciting. There aren't many cultural attractions, highly regarded restaurants, or other things that make you say 'wow, I really want to be in Gaithersburg.'

Sorry, if we aren't all as excited about Crown and Rio as you are.

But you know what we do have in Gaithersburg? Close proximity to a large number of beautiful places to run, hike, bike, and kayak. For people like my DH and I, who love the outdoors, the local, state, and county parks nearby are part of the reason we live here -- and, gasp, we live east of 270! And contrary to what one would read on these forums, I can walk safely in my neighborhood during the day and at night!

If we want to go to a cultural attraction, we can easily drive or metro to DC, but on a daily basis we can take advantage of the state park that is within walking distance of our home. I seriously doubt that any of you spouting off about how wonderful DC is go to visit those DC attractions on a daily or even weekly basis.

You can get those outdoor activities closer in as well. I've lived in both DC and Bethesda and have had easy access to Rock Creek park and the Capital Crescent Trail for running or biking. There are also a number of places where you can drop in a kayak.

Montgomery Aquatic Center in Bethesda doesn’t have a tot pool with slides and the one big slide they do have is never open because they never bother to hire enough lifeguards. Bethesda facilities are consistently inferior.

I have no interest in debating the relative quality of the acquatic facilities, something that didn't factor highly in my choice of where to live. I was merely pointing out that one did not have to live further out to have access to the outdoor activities a PP mentioned.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe a person looked at a crappy shack in Bethesda for that money and at the big nice house/town-home in the Crown area and said, I'd rather have crappy commute and come home to a nice place and not be depressed all the time? Or maybe they are doctors with a practice nearby or tech people and just liked it?

And all those would be perfectly reasonable choices for SOME people to make. Some people could reasonably make other choices that have nothing to do with racism - it is the contention that the only reason people don't want to live in Gaithersburg is racism that I have objected to.

This is also neither here nor there, but if you really have $1.5M to spend, you can get far more than a crappy shack in Bethesda.

when they point to white schools being better, it's racism/classism/limousine liberals.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe a person looked at a crappy shack in Bethesda for that money and at the big nice house/town-home in the Crown area and said, I'd rather have crappy commute and come home to a nice place and not be depressed all the time? Or maybe they are doctors with a practice nearby or tech people and just liked it?

And all those would be perfectly reasonable choices for SOME people to make. Some people could reasonably make other choices that have nothing to do with racism - it is the contention that the only reason people don't want to live in Gaithersburg is racism that I have objected to.

This is also neither here nor there, but if you really have $1.5M to spend, you can get far more than a crappy shack in Bethesda.

I disagree, I find the whole premise of this thread racist. The "puzzled" attitude that someone would pay that much to live in ganglandia, as one pp called it. Nobody has an issue with people paying that much to live in Fairfax or Vienna, Bethesda, Mclean, Potomac. That is why I find this racist. And many have pointed out GHS, as if people would never send their kids there.... bcs it is ganglandia. The puzzled part is troubling. For that matter new SFH in far out MD are more expensive than new SFH in far out exburbs of NoVa.

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Anonymous wrote:I would hate to live near this - Germantown sucks!

I love that pool, got me through the toddler years!

Literally that pool and the Adventure playground got me through the toddler years - back to back active toddlers .
We drove in from Bethesda multiple times a week.

??? It is much closer to Shriver center in Bethesda then to this pool from the very house in question.

Go walk around the Rio center lake and see how much there is too do with kids. Then go back to sad Bethesda with nothing but restaurants and one movie theater and one Kidville and cry.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe a person looked at a crappy shack in Bethesda for that money and at the big nice house/town-home in the Crown area and said, I'd rather have crappy commute and come home to a nice place and not be depressed all the time? Or maybe they are doctors with a practice nearby or tech people and just liked it?

And all those would be perfectly reasonable choices for SOME people to make. Some people could reasonably make other choices that have nothing to do with racism - it is the contention that the only reason people don't want to live in Gaithersburg is racism that I have objected to.

This is also neither here nor there, but if you really have $1.5M to spend, you can get far more than a crappy shack in Bethesda.

when they point to white schools being better, it's racism/classism/limousine liberals.

Who has pointed to white schools? One person referred to ganglandia, but everyone else is pointing out perfectly reasonable reasons wholly unrelated to race why many people are disinterested in Gaithersburg.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe a person looked at a crappy shack in Bethesda for that money and at the big nice house/town-home in the Crown area and said, I'd rather have crappy commute and come home to a nice place and not be depressed all the time? Or maybe they are doctors with a practice nearby or tech people and just liked it?

And all those would be perfectly reasonable choices for SOME people to make. Some people could reasonably make other choices that have nothing to do with racism - it is the contention that the only reason people don't want to live in Gaithersburg is racism that I have objected to.

This is also neither here nor there, but if you really have $1.5M to spend, you can get far more than a crappy shack in Bethesda.

when they point to white schools being better, it's racism/classism/limousine liberals.

Who has pointed to white schools? One person referred to ganglandia, but everyone else is pointing out perfectly reasonable reasons wholly unrelated to race why many people are disinterested in Gaithersburg.

Maybe no one pointed to white schools in this thread, but I have seen it mentioned many times in other forums on this site. Some people associate "better" neighborhoods and schools as those with a majority white population. There are studies that show that white neighborhoods have higher appreciation values that similar neighborhoods (housing stock, type) with larger black or minority populations. It's a self feeding cycle.

All that said, I don't see the hype about Bethesda or DC. Maybe it is because I don't prefer to leave in or even close to the city. I don't care what other people do/choose, I just wish people were a bit more thoughtful and didn't write off whole communities based on alternative facts.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe a person looked at a crappy shack in Bethesda for that money and at the big nice house/town-home in the Crown area and said, I'd rather have crappy commute and come home to a nice place and not be depressed all the time? Or maybe they are doctors with a practice nearby or tech people and just liked it?

And all those would be perfectly reasonable choices for SOME people to make. Some people could reasonably make other choices that have nothing to do with racism - it is the contention that the only reason people don't want to live in Gaithersburg is racism that I have objected to.

This is also neither here nor there, but if you really have $1.5M to spend, you can get far more than a crappy shack in Bethesda.

I disagree, I find the whole premise of this thread racist. The "puzzled" attitude that someone would pay that much to live in ganglandia, as one pp called it. Nobody has an issue with people paying that much to live in Fairfax or Vienna, Bethesda, Mclean, Potomac. That is why I find this racist. And many have pointed out GHS, as if people would never send their kids there.... bcs it is ganglandia. The puzzled part is troubling. For that matter new SFH in far out MD are more expensive than new SFH in far out exburbs of NoVa.

Exactly, as ONE Pp called it. You are conveniently ignoring all the other folks explaining short comings, primarily around commute, for a lot of people. And when lots of people wouldn't want to live in an area, that tends to lower prices of real estate.

You also ignore that these are town houses, which generally go for less than SFHs. It is not racist to be surprised to see town homes for sale for much more than most SFHs in the area.

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This area is a magnet for millennials. Go on the weekend, the streets, restaurants, health club, Harris Teether, all packed with Millenials. Because everything is in one place. People work nearby. Tons of big companies there and Health care institutions.